Review of The Liberator (2013) by Jordan B — 04 Jun 2015

Absolutely an entertaining movie, but the rife historical inaccuracies make it hard to take seriously. In all honesty this movie masquerades as an "independent" film, when it reality it is merely peddling the revisionist history that seeks to deify Simon Bolivar in the same way Leni Riefenstahl produced and directed ostensibly "independent and objective" films for the German National Socialist Worker's Party.

In a short list of examples; the self chosen (by the juvenile Bolivar in the movie) adoptive African "mother" is a completely fictitious character who never existed, and there is absolutely no evidence Bolivar ever engaged in such a relationship, nor that he espoused many of the rather propagandistic "revolutionary" ideals he did in the movie; Bolivar also never crossed the Andes .

.. the most emotionally engaging part of the movie never even remotely happened in real life; the British Tarkington character also never existed, nor was it based on any sort of real relationship Bolivar had with any foreign individual in real life; it has been rather well proven that Simon Bolivar did not die as the result of anything other than natural causes .

.. the entire final half hour of the movie being a farcical invention of delusional minds, devoid of any sort of factual basis ... the idea that Bolivar was assassinated or poisoned by "enemies" of the revolution is purely a creation of the current National Socialist government in Venezuela.

What's more is actual historical facts like Bolivar's battles in Peru were completely absent from the movies - one of the defining events in his life for which he is revered and recognized. Also, Bolivar was an autocrat .

.. among other things he thought the presidency should be for life, and that said president should appoint his successor by fiat, not by democratic election from the people. His political views in reality were about as much the polar opposite of the Simon Bolivar portrayed in the movie as possible .

.. a great majority of his views were antithetical to democracy, and one of the main reasons he was actually voted out of power.